{"id":3,"date":"2015-03-29T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.hamilton.wordcamp.org\/?p=3"},"modified":"2015-04-07T00:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:27:46","slug":"call-for-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/call-for-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all Speakers for WordCamp Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.hamilton.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/03\/ucda01-300x199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-388 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.hamilton.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/03\/ucda01-300x199-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker presenting\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>WordCamp Hamilton\u00a02015\u2019s call for speakers is now open! #WCYHM is June 6, 2015, but we intend to lock our speaker schedule in early!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you have something to share about WordPress that will benefit the community? Are you a dynamic and organized speaker who can engage an audience and deliver great value? We\u2019d like to hear your idea for a <strong>45\u00a0minute talk<\/strong> to be delivered as part of this event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/IihyPtyJwL\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a Speaker Application<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>This Year\u2019s\u00a0Tracks<\/h2>\n<p>We will be offering two tracks this year, one for beginners and bloggers, and another on more advanced design or development topics.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re looking for a wide range of interesting and informative content for diverse audience with a lot of converging WordPress related interests. So fill out a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/IihyPtyJwL\" target=\"_blank\">speaker application<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2>Topic suggestions<\/h2>\n<p>The topics, tracks and schedule this year will be entirely dictated by you, the Speakers, based on what you are offering to present. That being said, if you are eager to present, but are looking for inspiration, here are some ideas to get you started:<\/p>\n<h3>A11y<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>AODA Accessibility compliance<\/li>\n<li>Building accessible WordPress themes<\/li>\n<li>How to perform an accessibility audit<\/li>\n<li>Finding an accessible WordPress theme<\/li>\n<li>Accessible web forms<\/li>\n<li>WAI-ARIA and JavaScript best practices<\/li>\n<li>A11y issues from the disabled perspective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Coding<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Theme development best practices<\/li>\n<li>Leveraging the WordPress plugin architecture<\/li>\n<li>WordPress Multisite best practices<\/li>\n<li>Leveraging the Transients API<\/li>\n<li>Development environment set-up and best practices<\/li>\n<li>How to code with unit testing<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Backbone.js and WordPress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Content<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog writing 101<\/li>\n<li>Using the new Media Galleries introduced in 3.8<\/li>\n<li>Working with video<\/li>\n<li>Creating and maintaining a bilingual website with WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced comments with third party services<\/li>\n<li>SEO best practices and plugins<\/li>\n<li>WordPress basics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Community<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Women in WordPress \/ Girl Geeks<\/li>\n<li>WordPress-related Open Source projects looking for contributors<\/li>\n<li>Getting involved and contributing to WordPress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Business<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pricing WordPress-based projects<\/li>\n<li>WordPress project lifecycle<\/li>\n<li>The business of WordPress plugin\/theme development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>See something you\u2019d like to talk about? AWESOME!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t see your topic on this list? AWESOME!<\/p>\n<p>Either way, if you\u2019ve got an idea, please fill in the <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/IihyPtyJwL\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker Submission Form<\/a>, and we\u2019ll be reviewing them on a FIFO (first-in first-out) basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/IihyPtyJwL\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a Speaker Application<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>** We\u2019ll be accepting submissions until late April. Get yours in soon! **<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Hamilton\u00a02015\u2019s call for speakers is now open! #WCYHM is June 6, 2015, but we intend to lock our speaker schedule in early! Do you have something to share about WordPress that will benefit the community? Are you a dynamic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/call-for-speakers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Calling all Speakers for WordCamp Hamilton<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8267014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Em8j-3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8267014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamilton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}